Monday, March 31, 2014

The debate is over, has been for a long time for rational people regarding GW but... for flat earthers refusing to believe earth's becoming an oven because of us, the art of stupid looms, especially with three reports coming in from NASA & NOAAshowing how the rise of CO2 levels impacts climate change and the UN's IPCC (350mb - PDF) monster titled Climate Change 2013 providing ever more evidence that GW's a reality show writ large. Because of this, it's time for unbelievers to finally pack it in and realize we're in big trouble and must make radical changes now regarding energy and it's connect to the environment or face consequences too dire for civilization to even contemplate.

Click on the National Academies graphic below to get a concise view of why ignoring GW truly is the art of stupid. To learn more about how researchers put together climate models to explain their findings, click here.

The Question to ask now is, does Obama have the guts to pull the plug on Keystone XL?

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Alan Turing, one of the true giants in both science and technology, has appeared in BRT in numerous articles describing his work, not only as the inventor of AI and the digital computer (along with John Von Neumann) but also on his seminal contribution to Chaos (Stone Soup) when he posited his then revolutionary theory of how patterns emerge from seeming randomness as seen through the coloration of animals. Now, it seems researchers have put Turing's theory to the test and found out he was right about how chaos functions in the real world.

Full moons fascinate me as readers of this blog well know. It's the light and shadows, particularly on snow, that never cease to amaze, with their definition and coolness of illumination. Interestingly enough, you have to endure the cold to get viable images as cold air is clearer than warm, something astronomers have known about since the beginning of time. With this in mind, check out what's happening, beginning on April 15th, (I know, I know :)) as a bountiful of lunar eclipses are about to begin, an extremely rare event moon watchers like myself anticipate with great excitement while praying for clear skies when nature puts on a show as awesome as this.

Click the Nasa Earth Observatorymap to view the interactive version showing the increase of temperature anomalies due to global warming. After that, check out how close we are to collapse due to an interesting mix of self inflicted conditions that must be changed or we become toast if NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's model of collapse proves to be true.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Ripples in space time, something Einstein dreamed about when formulating General Relativity back in 1905, was considered to be a lock but without proof, gravitons remained forever theoretical and elusive, kind of like the Higgs Boson, "we know it's there but we can't prove it." notion until now.

Gravitons, the quantum carriers of the gravitational force, most likely exist, and work, in similar fashion, to photons, the quantum carriers of electromagnetism, which means...

A possible grand unification of quantum mechanics to relativity, a goal Einstein pursued in vain until his death in 1955, now becomes possible because of the fact gravity is most likely a quantum entity like the three other forces seen in nature, the strong, weak and electromagnetic.

The Multiverse, a theory independently proposed by Hugh Evertt, Andrei Linde, David Deutschand Bryce De Witt among significant others, becomes ever more plausible as inflation is not only seen to be real and eternal but also to be fractal in nature, able to spawn multiple universes without issue.

Articulate, uncompromising and resolute, Edward Snowden walks the walk and talks the talk in his analysis concerning why it's imperative we take back the net before it's too late. BRT has discussed this at length as loyal readers know but listening to Snowden is something people should do to better understand what's at stake here.

Which means... the jet stream is weakened as well because when the arctic becomes warmer, the temperature gradient from north to south lessens, thus causing the jet stream to lose strength and move south as a result, which enables such events as the Polar Vortex and intense snow storms to occur with greater frequency.

Summing it up, does global warming exist when taking in all these factors? Yes, particularly if there's an increase in anomalies, the precursors to phase transitions, where one state replaces another due to an environmental change such as heat, the agent that transforms water into a solid, a liquid or to a gas, depending on how hot the environment gets.